xo, lightweight text editor with syntax highlighting
xo (ex-oh) / exofrills [1] (PyPI [2], GitHub [3]) is a lightweight text editor with syntax highlighting from Pygments. It's built on urwid in Python 3. A modeless editor.
It only has a handful of keys for saving, file insert, jumping, clipboard, re search/replace. And that's all.
To be honest, I can't really say if it's a good editor in terms of "lightweight." You have to exit the program to open another file, one can argue that is because it's lightweight, but you have file insertion feature, one is not every editor has.
But it certainly is small, less than 850 lines in one single file.
"Angered that you can't remember..."
...how to find help?
...what :wq means?
...any of the little lisper that you read as an undergrad?
My problem actually is I try to `:wq` in any programs and wonder why the program doesn't save the file and exits.
I don't believe lightweight would make you use a editor better, the problem is not that, but the design and the user altogether. For most cases, users are the one to be minus points in my opinion, not the programs.
Nevertheless, it's a text editor that does the job.
And you should check it out if nano, Vim, or Emacs ain't your cup of tea. Or at least read its web page, the author clearly spend some time designing it. (nice ASCII header/logo image)
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"exofrills: your text has been edited...but you are still hungry."
"exofrills - when nano is too much"
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Version 0.1.7 (2014-03-15)
In Python3 with urwid and Pygments
By Anthony Scopatz
WTFPL Version 2
[1]: http://exofrills.org/
[2]: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/exofrills
[3]: https://github.com/scopatz/xo
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